Lyon Springs Resort, Matilija Canyon, Near Nordhoff, Ventura, Co., Calif.
Health Resorts--Lyons Hot Springs
Lyon Springs Resort
Matilija Canyon--Circa 1930
Trail view of a campsite at Lyon Springs Resorts, Matilija Canyon. Set beside a campsite of simple white tents, a trail head marked by wood posts in the foreground heads off into the trees.
Caption: "LYON SPRINGS RESORT, MATILIJA CANYON, NEAR NORDHOFF, VENTURA CO., CALIF."
Verso: Addressed to Barbara Barnard Smith and Mr. Rudolph R[rest illegible] of Brooklyn, New York.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (C.T. American Art, Chicago), A72265]
Brakey, J. R.
Museum of Ventura County
1930-06-17
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20526 PC
15 x 10 cm
Color postcard
English
Image
20075 PC
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)
G.A.R. Vets Civil War Gathering
Veterans
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Plaza Park (Ventura, Calif.)
Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Civil War vets encampment gathering at Plaza Park in Ventura, Calif. The large group stands in front of tents under trees. According to museum records there "appears to be a rubber tree surrounded by Cypress, 200 of which were planted in 1874. Rubber tree is smaller than Cypress, apparently planted later."
Brewster, John Calvin
Museum of Ventura County
1892
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20 x 12 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
424
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Hueneme Beach Scene
Hueneme (Calif.)--Views
Beaches
Beachgoers
Hueneme Wharf
View of a very crowded beach at Hueneme with the Hueneme wharf and buildings in the background. There appears to be people walking on the wharf. Several tents and umbrellas are on the beach. People are in the water and at the shoreline, as well as sunbathing.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
No date
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
12.7 x 9.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26824
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Port Hueneme (Calif.)
Billiwhack Stock Farm Dairy Truck in Parade
Billiwhack Dairy
Parades
Bulls
Trucks
A dairy truck from Billiwhack Stock Farm in a parade. Truck is leading prized bull Prince Aagie, seen on the left of image behind the truck. Two men in dairy uniforms hold a large banner announcing Prince Aagie just behind the truck. Truck reads "Your milk twice a day on ice all the way, Billiwhack Stock Farm." In the background is a row of large tents with US flags atop them.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1920s
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
12.5 x 9.6 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26841
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Santa Paula (Calif.)
Ventura County Beach near Sycamore Canyon
Beaches
Camping
Recreation
Ventura County near Sycamore Canyon. View of beach near Sycamore Canyon. Beach scene shows a rocky beach dotted with tents and people along Pacific Coast Highway with coastal mountains in background. Museum records indicate this is now a state beach and camping area once called "tin can beach" and that the tents and cars imply the year may be late 1920s or early 1930s.
Today, in 2022, this is possibly Thornhill Broome Beach, as sand dune scenic spot near Sycamore Cove Beach can be seen in the background.
Miller, Jack
Jack Miller Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
No date
Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
11.8 x 8.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26652
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Baby Parade
Parades
Infants
Ventura Street Fair (Ventura, Calif.)
Baby parade at the Ventura Street Fair. Babies in decorated strollers and dressed up children parade in a line down a street. Buildings, storefronts, banners, and street tents are visible. Caption on photograph reads: No. 53 Baby Parade Street Fair Ventura, Cal. Oct 1900"
Park & Rogers
Museum of Ventura County
1900 October
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19 x 11.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5006
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Southern Pacific Railroad Construction Camp
Southern Pacific Company
Railroads
A group of white tents form a campsite at the Southern Pacific construction site.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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19 x 11 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
5022
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Encampment
Veterans
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Group photo of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Encampment held in a plaza in Ventura. Men and women are standing in a large group. A young boy is in the bottom-center of the image facing the viewer with his hands on his hips. There appear to be white tents surrounding the group. The GAR was a fraternal organization composed of veteran of the Union Army, Union Navy and Marines who served in the American Civil War.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
1892-07-14
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Salted paper print photograph
18.8 x 10.9 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
5337
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Camping at Pierpont Bay
Camping
Beaches
Piers
Bird's eye view of men, women, and children actively setting up a camping tent and campground. There is a car with people and a dog inside parked alongside the tent on what appears to be a road in the sand. The beach in the background appears to be desolate except for some houses a distance away. In the distant background, a pier is visible, probably Pierpont Pier. Library records indicate they are camping at Pierpont Bay, post 1915.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1920
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20.5 x 25.7 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
6026
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Beach Camp at Hueneme
Outdoor cooking
Camping
The men took their turn cooking all dressed up in women's clothing. A group of women and children stand around under a large tent or canopy. Some of the group are looking into the camera. Caption reads: Hueneme Beach Camp, Sept. 23, 1907.
Unknown
E.M. Jarrett Collection, 1983
Museum of Ventura County
1907-09-23
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12.6 x 16.3 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
9688
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Port Hueneme (Calif.)
Camping with Tents and Families
Camping
Tents
Camping with tents and families
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp038
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Tents and People on Horseback
Horses
Tents
Trees
Tents and people on horseback in rural area [image is degraded].
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp050
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Man on Anacapa Island Beach
Anacapa Island
Beaches
Buildings
Men
Tents
Man on Anacapa Island Beach
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp279
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Family Camping on Channel Islands
Camping
Tents
Family camping on Channel Islands.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp332
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Channel Islands (Calif.)
Men Camping on Channel Islands
Camping
Tents
Men camping on Channel Islands.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp333
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Family Camping
Camping
Tents
Family Camping
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp379
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Men Engaged in a Ceremony
Flags
Men
Rites and Ceremonies
Men engaged in a ceremony in a large tent.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp426
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Men Engaged in a Ceremony
Children
Flags
Men
Rites and ceremonies
Women
Men engaged in a ceremony in a large tent.
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
No date
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Glass plate negative
English
Image
gp428
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Sisquoc Rangers Camping
Hunting
Hunters
Library records state: "Sisquoc Rangers - The Hunting Club of the Nineties (1890's)." Photo is of a woman flanked by two men in front of tent. They are sitting on the ground
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1890s
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9038
9040
9041
8.8 x 11.8 cm
Sepia photograph
English
Image
9039
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Filming of "The Sheik"
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Bird's eye view of the set of "The Sheik", a 1921 silent romantic drama starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres. Filming was on an Oxnard beach. It is a crowded beach scene with many palm trees and large striped tents. A large group of people on horseback in the background.
Unknown
Madeline Miedema Collection, 1990
Museum of Ventura County
1921
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11.2 x 17.8 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
18389
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Oxnard (Calif.)
John, George and Leonard Takasugi in Army Camp
Takasugi, John
Takasugi, George
Takasugi, Leonard, 1919-1945
United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
World War, 1939-1945
Japanese Americans
France
Japanese American soldiers
Group portrait of Leonard, John, and George Takasugi (442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team) seated in an army camp in Antibes, France, before the Italian invasion. Leonard was killed in Italy on April 5, 1945.
Unknown
John Takasugi Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1945 March
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27563
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
27564
John, George and Leonard Takasugi in Army Camp With a Red Cross Worker
Takasugi family
Takasugi, John
Takasugi, George
Takasugi, Leonard, 1919-1945
United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
World War, 1939-1945
Japanese Americans
France
Japanese American soldiers
Group portrait of Leonard, John, and George Takasugi (442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team) posing with an unnamed female Red Cross worker in an army camp in Antibes, France, before the Italian invasion. Leonard was killed in Italy on April 5, 1945.
Unknown
John Takasugi Collection, 1994
Museum of Ventura County
1945 March
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27564
Black and white negative
English
Image
27563 NP
Keene Reel 9, Campsite, Town, and Animal Footage
Animal feeding
Farmyards
Campsites
Taxidermy
Cooking
Keene, Herman, 1878-1965
Black-and-white footage of camping and general frontier life, some disturbing and graphic, featuring a variety of animals, interspersed with scenes of activity in and around a newly developed town.
Men cook, roll cigarettes, pose for portraits in campsites; some camps are set along dry hills, others in the shade beside small creeks. The longest section of the camping footage focuses on one elaborate creekside campsite, with a large tent, shaded dining area with a hammock, a private bathing area. Later, men guide horses to a campsite with a large flagpole, bearing an American flag and a plaque that reads, "Forest Fireman Station – Maps, Information and Campfire Permits."
In town, the camera focuses on a large, two-story house, and captures various men posing in front of it. Various people are pictured in front of their homes; men socialize in the street. Later, a small café appears, with a neon sign noting "Dick's Sandwiches." An employee in a clean white paper hat, shirt, and apron steps outside and poses before the building.
One section shows a zoo or wildlife preserve of some sort, where men inspect a snake, an African lion cub, and a field of beehives. Elsewhere, men feed and pet donkeys and horses before large barns. One man feeds a large crowd of swans and other birds; another man guides a small wagon driven by (and full of) dogs. A taxidermist examines a dead mountain lion; a kitten studies a dead coyote. A small child climbs onto a stuffed mountain lion (later became part of the Museum of Ventura County collection). A bearded man in a cap, possibly Herman Keene, later poses beside the same taxidermized lion.
Unknown
Herman Keene Collection, 2021
Funding support for the digitization of this material was generously provided by The Schwemm Family Foundation.
Accession No.: 2021-1
Museum of Ventura County
1900-1940
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Black and White Film
Home Movie
14 min., 12 sec.
English
Image
2021-1.9 AV <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nf3tsmdjtz3ziat/2021-1.9AV.mp4?dl=0">(Keene Reel 9)</a>
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura Street Fair Parade, 1900
Parades
Fairs
Storefronts
Parade scene on Main Street in Ventura during the Ventura Street Fair in 1900. Storefronts are visible as are tents for fair vendors set up in front of the stores. In front of the tents, a large crowd watches the parade procession that includes men on horseback holding US flags. The street appears to be dirt and streetcar rail lines are visible on it. Banners decorate buildings.
According to library records, scene shows "U. S. Forest Rangers, W. M. Slosson (?) in lead., J. V. Reyes at rear and left. Standing third from left is Juan Camarillo." Some signs on buildings or tents that are visible read: "Conner & Blackstock; F. W. Baker; Armour Packing Company; Ventura News Agency."
Original photograph mounted on dark gray cardstock.
Unknown
Drapeau Collection, 1993
Museum of Ventura County
1900
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20.5 x 12.5 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
26003
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Camarillo (Calif.)
Sespe--Lathrop's
Horsemanship
Hunting lodges
Fishing lodges
Lathrop family
Sespe Wilderness (Calif.)
Scene showing men on horseback in the Sespe. In the background are two houses or cabins and some large tents, as well as mountains. Museum records indicate this is Lathrop's. Herbert Lathrop ran a fishing and hunting resort/camp at the property known as Lathrop Camp or "Hotel Sespe."
Unknown
Museum of Ventura County
circa 1900s
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9 x 9.1 cm
Black and white photograph
English
Image
1718
California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ojai (Calif.)